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 Posted:   Oct 24, 2018 - 6:13 PM   
 By:   Tango Urilla   (Member)

DARK KNIGHT RISES

1-4
6-11
14
15

Tt: 40:24

Brm


That is barely whittled. That’s like: “I don’t like 3 tracks on this album so I’mma leave ‘em off.” Just suck it up and listen to the whole thing.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2018 - 6:20 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

You're such a Sheep, Shaun.
Remind me to kill ya when I next see ya.


Hahaha ouch!

Anyway, here's my Varese-like version of some guy's remix of Intrada's The Shadow

1. The Poppy Fields (Main Title)
2. I'll Be There
3. Chest Pains
4. The Knife
5. The Tank
6. The Hotel
7. Fight Like A Man
8. The Mirrors (Revised)

32 minutes-ish. I cut The Sanctum and The Tank, but maybe shouldn't have.


Interesting selections - any particular reason why you didn't want to include the movie's closing cue, "Frontal Lobotomy"?


I was trying to trim it down, that's all! I prefer The Sanctum and The Tank to Frontal Lobotomy and cut both of those (perhaps idiotically), but dammit, now you have me wanting to un-whittle and make it a 45 minute album instead.


Hey, nothing wrong with a solid 45-minute presentation! That still works if we follow the old LP limitations.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2018 - 7:32 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

DARK KNIGHT RISES

1-4
6-11
14
15

Tt: 40:24

Brm


That is barely whittled. That’s like: “I don’t like 3 tracks on this album so I’mma leave ‘em off.” Just suck it up and listen to the whole thing.


Someone asked.
I answered.
Deal with it.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2018 - 7:59 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

You're such a Sheep, Shaun.
Remind me to kill ya when I next see ya.


Hahaha ouch!

Anyway, here's my Varese-like version of some guy's remix of Intrada's The Shadow

1. The Poppy Fields (Main Title)
2. I'll Be There
3. Chest Pains
4. The Knife
5. The Tank
6. The Hotel
7. Fight Like A Man
8. The Mirrors (Revised)

32 minutes-ish. I cut The Sanctum and The Tank, but maybe shouldn't have.


Interesting selections - any particular reason why you didn't want to include the movie's closing cue, "Frontal Lobotomy"?


I was trying to trim it down, that's all! I prefer The Sanctum and The Tank to Frontal Lobotomy and cut both of those (perhaps idiotically), but dammit, now you have me wanting to un-whittle and make it a 45 minute album instead.


Hey, nothing wrong with a solid 45-minute presentation! That still works if we follow the old LP limitations.


Haha I kept talking about having cut The Tank, but it was right there in the 8 track version. Don't worry, I'm adding the other two now! Still whittled!

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 25, 2018 - 9:56 PM   
 By:   Tango Urilla   (Member)

Perhaps there should be a new name for those who just want to take off one or two tracks they don’t like. Maybe pruners. Just a little snip here and a little snip there.

 
 Posted:   Oct 25, 2018 - 10:41 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Dammit Jim! Im a whittler. Not a barber!

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 25, 2018 - 10:57 PM   
 By:   Tango Urilla   (Member)

Hey, it's all the same to me. And if we're going to go calling each other made up names, please, call me Shirley.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 12:22 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

This thread was practically made for me. It's a rarity when I don't whittle, prune, combine, reorganize my scores into custom playlists. Which is why "streaming only" will never work for me. I prefer longer cues so in a lot of cases I combine tracks into longer suites, particularly in comedy scores. I often cut out "Mickey Mousey" music from otherwise great cues, mostly in animated scores. I find most modern action scoring very boring, so I cut a lot of those cues out where I otherwise like the soundtrack.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 7:59 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Large chunks of the soundtrack just bogged it down for me. I whittled and whittled this one down.

Avengers - Infinity War (Deluxe Edition)- Alan Silvestri

The Avengers
Even for You
Morning After
Is He Always Like This?
More Power
Charge!
Forge
A Lot to Figure Out (Extended)
The End Game (Extended)
Get That Arm/I Feel You (Extended)
Porch
Infinity War
End Credits

Total Time: 41:44

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 8:38 AM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Large chunks of the soundtrack just bogged it down for me. I whittled and whittled this one down.

Avengers - Infinity War (Deluxe Edition)- Alan Silvestri

The Avengers
Even for You
Morning After
Is He Always Like This?
More Power
Charge!
Forge
A Lot to Figure Out (Extended)
The End Game (Extended)
Get That Arm/I Feel You (Extended)
Porch
Infinity War
End Credits

Total Time: 41:44


I'll have to go through my own whittling (which only took it down to like 83 minutes or something ridiculous) and see if this is acceptable. I think I tried to keep in everything that had even ONE good action lick. Oh wait, I can already see that Help Arrives is cut from yours! That's a huge moment in the film!

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 8:58 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Large chunks of the soundtrack just bogged it down for me. I whittled and whittled this one down.

Avengers - Infinity War (Deluxe Edition)- Alan Silvestri

The Avengers
Even for You
Morning After
Is He Always Like This?
More Power
Charge!
Forge
A Lot to Figure Out (Extended)
The End Game (Extended)
Get That Arm/I Feel You (Extended)
Porch
Infinity War
End Credits

Total Time: 41:44


I'll have to go through my own whittling (which only took it down to like 83 minutes or something ridiculous) and see if this is acceptable. I think I tried to keep in everything that had even ONE good action lick. Oh wait, I can already see that Help Arrives is cut from yours! That's a huge moment in the film!


There were a few cues with outstanding segments but as a whole dragged on. Normally I try to edit those cues but I hardly have the time to do that anymore.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 9:14 AM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Agreed. I didn't include The Avengers cue and started with Help Arrives instead.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 11:27 AM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Agreed. I didn't include The Avengers cue and started with Help Arrives instead.

It's also my intent at some point to whittle down Infinity War. I wound getting both the deluxe and regular album editions, as I was curious to hear what was included in the 70-minute album presentation.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 11:41 AM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Congo (expanded edition, 49:12 album edit) - Jerry Goldsmith

Spirit Of Africa/The Expedition
Zinj
Meet Amy
Meet Monroe Kelly
Road Block
Crossing The Border
Bail Out
No Customs
Deep Jungle (Album Version)
The Ghost Tribe (Revised)
Hippo Attack
The Other Side (Revised)
Crash Site
Gates Of Zinj
Help Me
We Are Watching
Amy's Nightmare
Kahega
Amy's Farewell/Spirit Of Africa/End Credits

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 12:03 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Black Sunday (1977) - John Williams. This was my attempt to create a "what-if" scenario, in that if Williams had been able to create an album for this score back in '77, knowing that the LP/tape/8-track format would limit him to 40-45 minute presentation and that he wouldn't go for a chronological order. And honestly, since most of the action music is in the last half of the movie, it's best to mix it up anyway, with a big start to both "sides" of the LP:

Side A:
The Explosion (Revised Ending)/End Title (Film Edit)
Commando Raid
Moshevsky's Dead
The Blimp and The Bomb
The Telephone Man/The Captain Returns
Building The Bomb
Preparations

Side B:
Air Chase, Parts 2 & 3/The Blimp Hits
The Test
It Was Good/Dahlia Arrives/The Unloading
Speed Boat Chase
Miami/Dahlia's Call
The Flight Check
The Explosion
The End

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 12:27 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Lethal Weapon 4 - Michael Kamen. I wanted to take this 2-disc full score presentation on the LLL set and trim it out down to just a 70-minute album, mostly chronological. Also, I love both versions of "Chinatown Chase" and so I decided to open the album with one version, as an overture, then include the other in the main program:

Chinatown Chase (film version)
Don't Turn / Cute Shorts
Leo's Shark / Boys On Boat
Freighter
Marriage Talk
Chinese Food
Chinatown Chase (alternate)
Riggs Falls
Tequila
Chinese Prison
Cell Phone
House Fight
Ku Attacks
Freeway Chase
Four Fathers
Baby Train
Warehouse Fight/Showdown
Underwater Fight
Underwater Fight Concludes
Murtaugh to the Rescue
Cemetery
Hospital/Babies

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 12:39 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Black Sunday (1977) - John Williams. This was my attempt to create a "what-if" scenario, in that if Williams had been able to create an album for this score back in '77, knowing that the LP/tape/8-track format would limit him to 40-45 minute presentation and that he wouldn't go for a chronological order. And honestly, since most of the action music is in the last half of the movie, it's best to mix it up anyway, with a big start to both "sides" of the LP:

Side A:
The Explosion (Revised Ending)/End Title (Film Edit)
Commando Raid
Moshevsky's Dead
The Blimp and The Bomb
The Telephone Man/The Captain Returns
Building The Bomb
Preparations

Side B:
Air Chase, Parts 2 & 3/The Blimp Hits
The Test
It Was Good/Dahlia Arrives/The Unloading
Speed Boat Chase
Miami/Dahlia's Call
The Flight Check
The Explosion
The End


This is interesting. I usually just keep it in film order, but cut out the tracks I don't want to hear often (I have a larger iPod with every track, but the iPhone is the one I do the whittling on). Here's my 39 minute program, which only cuts like what - 7 tracks from the main program?

1. Beirut
2. It Was Good/Dahlia Arrives/The Underdog
3. Speed Boat Chase
4. The Test
5. Building The Bomb
6. Miami/Dahlia's Call
7. Preparations
8. The Flight Check
9. Airborne/Bomb Passes Stadium
10. Farley's Dead
11. The Blimp and The Bomb
12. The Take Off
13. Underway
14. Air Chase, Part 1
15. Air Chase, Part 2
16. The Explosion
17. The End

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 1:38 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Black Sunday (1977) - John Williams. This was my attempt to create a "what-if" scenario, in that if Williams had been able to create an album for this score back in '77, knowing that the LP/tape/8-track format would limit him to 40-45 minute presentation and that he wouldn't go for a chronological order. And honestly, since most of the action music is in the last half of the movie, it's best to mix it up anyway, with a big start to both "sides" of the LP:

Side A:
The Explosion (Revised Ending)/End Title (Film Edit)
Commando Raid
Moshevsky's Dead
The Blimp and The Bomb
The Telephone Man/The Captain Returns
Building The Bomb
Preparations

Side B:
Air Chase, Parts 2 & 3/The Blimp Hits
The Test
It Was Good/Dahlia Arrives/The Unloading
Speed Boat Chase
Miami/Dahlia's Call
The Flight Check
The Explosion
The End


This is interesting. I usually just keep it in film order, but cut out the tracks I don't want to hear often (I have a larger iPod with every track, but the iPhone is the one I do the whittling on). Here's my 39 minute program, which only cuts like what - 7 tracks from the main program?

1. Beirut
2. It Was Good/Dahlia Arrives/The Underdog
3. Speed Boat Chase
4. The Test
5. Building The Bomb
6. Miami/Dahlia's Call
7. Preparations
8. The Flight Check
9. Airborne/Bomb Passes Stadium
10. Farley's Dead
11. The Blimp and The Bomb
12. The Take Off
13. Underway
14. Air Chase, Part 1
15. Air Chase, Part 2
16. The Explosion
17. The End


I think your short program also works, even in chronological form, as it does trim much of the suspense music for the major highlights and set pieces.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 1:44 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

My fan edit of LLL's Close Encounters. I think I pretty much followed the first program. Removed "The Conversation", replaced "Special Edition End Credits" with the original "Resolution and End Title" and added "Advance Scout Greeting *. (My favorite new cue from the score) Still on the fence regarding "Inside *+"

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (40th Anniversary)

Main Title and the Vision **
Navy Planes
Lost Squadron
Trucking
Into the Tunnel and Chasing UFOs
Crescendo Summit
False Alarm and the Helicopter
Barry's Kidnapping
Forming the Mountain
TV Reveals / Across Country
The Mountain
The Cover-up and Base Camp
The Escape
Climbing the Mountain
Outstretched Hands
The Light Show
Advance Scout Greeting *
Barnstorming
The Mothership
The Returnees
The Appearance of the Visitors +
Inside *+
Resolution and End Title


I really wish they were able to include the OST remastered. Oh well.

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2018 - 2:16 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Again, removing The Conversation is crazy! It's key to the whole score! I do like that you retained Advance Scout Greeting, though. I did move that in the sequence so that it comes right before The Conversation, though. I took "Inside" off because it causes the whole CE3K to flag as 1980 on my iPhone and that drives me crazy (see also: The E.T. Adventure).

 
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